Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
Ennio Morricone: The Oscar-winning maestro movie composer
msn.comEnnio Morricone was a uniquely famous film composer, one of the very few whose work is recognisable enough to be parodied. Yet the subject of those parodies – his scores for Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns – formed a tiny part of an immense output.
Probably even the composer himself lost count of his film scores, but it was certainly over 500, in addition to many concert works.
Though it wasn’t until 2016 – when Morricone was 87 years old – that he took home the Best Original Score Oscar, for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.
Born in Rome in 1928, his trumpeter-father was his first music teacher, insisting that he studied the same instrument before moving on to the Santa Cecilia Conservatory.
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